Amazing Spider-Man 4 Release Date May Change

With Sony mapping out multiple Spider-Man sequels years ahead of time, there's bound to be a few changes along the way. Producer Matt Tolmach recently hinted that The Amazing Spider-Man 4 may not hit theaters on May 4, 2018 after all. In fact, the current plan is for the studio to release Venom and The Sinister Six before Spider-Man 4.

"Before we know what we do with Spider-Man 4, we're going to do Sinister Six, Venom and Spider-Man 3," Tolmach explained to Den of Geek in a recent interview. "There is going to be a lot of crossover in those movies. So we're just not at Spider-Man 4, because we still have a whole other Spider-Man movie and two other movies. So we don't know yet what [Spider-Man 4] is going to be."

Tolmach also confirmed that the May 2018 date is for a Spider-Man movie, but not necessarily The Amazing Spider-Man 4. This seems to suggest that either Venom or The Sinister Six will take that 2018 slot.

Meanwhile, director Marc Webb has said that we will be stepping down from the Amazing Spider-Man franchise after the third film, which is currently slated for 2016 (although that date could change too, given what Tolmach has said). That left Spider-Man 4 without a director. So it makes sense that that film would come out after Venom and Sinister Six, since both of those projects already have directors attached -- Alex Kurtzman and Drew Goddard, respectively.